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FRC’s Selective Outrage

Listen to this clip from the AFA radio program “Today’s Issues” the other day in which Tony Perkins and Ken Blackwell, both of the Family Research Council, complain that people are calling the Tea Party activists “terrorists”:

Perkins: You have the comments being made by the Vice President of the United States … and he’s equating conservative members of Congress who are identified with the Tea Party as being terrorists and holding the nation hostage.

Blackwell: Well, that is just consistent with the strategy of define and destroy that the Left, headed up by the President and the Vice President, have been putting on us for the last couple of years … Look this is an attempt to define those who are asking tough questions not just as being rabble-rousers or folks who are really tough in pressing the issue, but as being terrorists. And this really has to stop.

Oh, the outrage!

FRC would never stoop so low!

Oh wait … what about this clip from the Family Research Council’s very own “ENDA: The End of Religious Freedom in America?” DVD where, at the 1:37 mark, Frank Wright of National Religious Broadcasters calls ENDA and hate crimes legislation “economic terrorism”:

Wright: On Capitol Hill, as we say, at the end of the day, ENDA and hate crimes are really a form of economic terrorism. They hold an extortion-like threat over your head and say that if you don’t submit, you will pay for it in legal fees and in judgments and in pain and suffering in court for years to come. Some people will stand against that. Some people don’t have the resources to stand against that. Others, sadly, are going to cut and run and that is the great pity of the whole thing.

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